Tommy Jackson - Something I Never Had

from Round 21, Week 3 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Skinned knees and broken bones
Rocks in shoes
All the things that make young boys
Feel the blues
Make them cry unable to ask why this happens to them
And when they look back as grown adults they smile again

They laugh at all the small things they took so seriously
And the sadness they had felt back then
they can't even believe
Now to them it's nothing compared to the coldness
they see everyday
They laugh at the pain

Is my life colder now that I'm older
the pain I felt back then now makes me laugh
Further down the road
Will I look back to this day
and smile at the things that right now make me sad
Was my heartbreak just an illusion?
Something I never had

Out past the street lights that mark the edge of town
past the fences keeping the crops that feed the city can be found
to the west as it gets vaguer with every word
and known facts are replace with rumors that you heard

You might find some of it there, carved into a tree
my initials etched into the bark by a smaller version of me
I'm different now and that boy only remains tattooed in oak
and in forgotten closets of my memory

Is my life colder now that I'm older
the pain I felt back then now makes me laugh
Further down the road
Will I look back to this day
and smile at the things that right now make me sad
Was my heartbreak just an illusion?
Something I never had

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from Round 21, Week 3, released December 17, 2018
Tommy Jackson

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